HISTORY OF LABSCI OF MT
Medieval period - Ancient physicians examined specimens from patients.
Oldest known test is urinalysis.
4000 BC - Physicians in Babylon made observation on the color and consistency of urine.
Physicians in Babylon - made observation on the color and consistency of urine.
1500 BC - Ebers papyrus - ancient text, which describes the polyuria and intestinal worms.
Ebers papyrus - ancient text, which describes the polyuria and intestinal worms.
460 BC - Hippocrates- father of medicine was born and he established the ethical standards in the Hippocratic oath
Hippocrates- father of medicine was born and he established the ethical standards in the Hippocratic oath
Rufus of Ephesus - first to describe hematuria or blood in the urine.
Antisius- first forensic pathologist. He performed the autopsy on the corpse of Julius Caesar in 44 BC
500 AD - Indian physicians observed that some types of urine attracts insects due to high sugar content called madhumeha/honey urine
Indian physicians observed that some types of urine attracts insects due to high sugar content called madhumeha/honey urine
900 AD - Isaac Judaeus - he devised the guidelines for using urine as a diagnostic acid.
16th century Girolamo Fracastoro - proposed a primitive version of “germ theory”.
Robert Koch- discovered the tubercle bacillus
1628 William Harvey - described the circulation of blood
Marcelo Malphigi - fortified the concept by ascertaining the existence of capillaries
1665 Richard Lower - conducted the first successful blood transfusion in animals
17th century Antonie van Leeuwenhoek - invented the microscope
18th and 19th century Johannes Muller - pioneered clinical cytology and described the microscopic structure of various types of cancer
Rudolf Virchow - established the fundamentals of cellular pathology
20th century Alexander Fleming - observed that the mold Penicillium killed staphylococci in culture.
1909 Karl Lansteiner – discovered the major blood groups and the Rh blood group system.
1883 is when First public health laboratory was established
1887 is when Spanish colonial health system created the Laboratorio Municipal de Manila
School of Hygiene and Public Health was established on 1887
on 1927 in University of the Philippines – formally opened its degree-granting School of Hygiene and Public Health analogous to MT course
on 1939 the Department of Public Health was created.
on September of 1945, The 26th medical laboratory of the 6th united states army arrived in the Philippines and established its advanced clinical laboratory at 208 Quiricada street Sta. Cruz Manila - first modern clinical laboratory in the country and left in the care of the DOH
208 Quiricada street Sta. Cruz Manila - first modern clinical laboratory in the country and left in the care of the DOH
Dr. Alfredo Pio De Roda - reorganized the clinical laboratory together with the assistance of Dr. Mariano Icasiano and renamed as Manila Public Health Laboratory.
1953 - the Philippine Union College offered medical technology as a 2 year course through the effect of Willa Hilgert Hedrick - pioneer of medical technology education in the Philippines
1955 - Dr. Jesse Umali - first medical technology graduate.
June 21, 1969 - RA no. 5527 - the Philippine Medical Technology act of 1969 was enacted.